[TriLUG] NIS on Linux (debian)
Richard Ryder
ryder at cesmail.net
Fri Dec 2 12:26:46 EST 2005
Do you have a line like the one below in the /etc/passwd on the solaris
box? From memory I think something like this is required.
+::::::
Rich
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:24 -0500, John-David Henderson wrote:
> Question for whomever....
>
> I have NIS master server up and running and users are able to login with thier accounts from NIS clients just fine. But, when I create a new user in /var/yp/passwd file and add them to the group that I need them to be in under /var/yp/group, and then do a make.... The make updates everything, but for some reason on an of my solaris servers the nis user does not have permissions to login. "access denied"
>
> Now I can ypcat passwd and see this new user in the passwd file, and do a ypmatch and see the account as well, but if I do a su - user
> It responds
> Su: Unknown id: user
>
> Or if I just try and login it gives me an "access denied" after I put in the password,
>
> Any help guys ?
>
> Thank you :)
>
> JD Henderson M:919.649.5589 jd at savagegeek.com
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